OpenMoko as a phone

For quite a long time I was complaining (in person) how nice and half-usable my OpenMoko is. However, thanks to few great hints I'm now make a dial out and dial in.

First, you will really want to install cu package. It contains old UUCP serial tool which will be much more unseful than you might think! Think of cu as cat for console.

Turn on your OpenMoko (while holding AUX button) and type following:

chown uucp:uucp /dev/ttyACM0 ; cu -l /dev/ttyACM0

You might try to just run cu as root, but it still doesn't work (for me) without chown first. If someone could say me to make this automatic, I would be grateful. So, dear lazyweb, I'm quite sure that there is some udev option for that, and if you know what, drop me a note. If not, this might become topic for another post.